romantyczne-mysli: Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde, Philosopher And Aesthete: An Examination Of The Evolving Aesthetic Of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was one of the many men of intellectual stature in the nineteenth century who openly embraced and lauded Darwin's theory of evolution. However, with Wilde in particular, there is a kind of irony involved in this simple fact, since Wilde himself was a man highly aware and conscious of his own consistent and personal evolution. He anticipated, among others, Lawrence's feeling and belief that the "old stable ego" had had its day, and that human psychology was infinitely complex and required much insight and examination to be understood. For this reason any study of Wilde must be developm…

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The poetry of Oscar Wilde : a critical study. Though the name of Oscar Wilde is a familiar one both to the general reader and to students of English Literature, little serious critical attention has been given to his work and, in English at least, almost none at all to his poetry, which he wrote with varying degrees of concentration throughout his literary career. -- This study has been undertaken partly in order to rectify what seems an unnecessary omission by simply examining Wilde's poetry in some detail and thus restoring it to critical notice, and partly in order to discover whether it has any merits or whether the neglect of it hitherto is entirely justified. -- The first Chapter surv…

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Vera; or, The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. A draft of the script was completed in 1880 and the following year arrangements were made for a one-off staging in London with Mrs. Bernard-Beere in the title role, but the production was cancelled. The first performance was in 1883 at New York’s Union Square Theatre, and was based on revisions made by Wilde while lecturing in America in 1882. The play, which starred Marie Prescott as Vera, was not a success and folded after only one week. It is rarely revived.